Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington wanted an envoy who would "promote, not thwart, the neutral policy of the Government." Monroe returned to the U.S. in disgrace, and it looked as if his public career might be finished, but he was liked and admired in his home state, and within a few years after his recall he bounced back as Governor of Virginia.* In 1803 Monroe's old friend Jefferson sent him to France as a special envoy to help negotiate the U.S. right to navigation on the Mississippi, a cause dear to Monroe's heart. Once again in the thick of history...
What wrecked Shadegg was Goldwater's decision to stay neutral; he wired all G.O.P. county chairmen that "only God and myself will know whom I vote for." The contest thus turned mainly on personality. Shadegg is recognized as one of the nation's most astute political managers, but his cold, seemingly superior personality offended many voters. Mecham, a slight man with a folksy twang, came across better. Born on a Utah farm, he was a high school salutatorian, a World War II P-51 pilot who was shot down over Germany and held prisoner, a self-made businessman...
Argentina. The country's military rulers, having unconstitutionally taken power, were now fighting among themselves. Rival cliques sent their tanks through the streets of Buenos Aires to make menacing gestures at one another; three new War Ministers were appointed in the space of four days, until finally a "neutral" general was found who for the moment satisfied both sides. Argentina's dogged Economics Minister Alvaro Alsogaray, who recently returned from the U.S. with $500 million in loans, warned that the nation could not continue much longer in a state of "anarchy." Alsogaray has not been able...
Long before opening day, the precariously neutral Finns had warned party planners from Moscow that there was "scant domestic support" for the propaganda jamboree. Besides, the government added, theaters, stadiums and schools needed for festival functions were all under repair and would not be ready in time to accommodate the visitors. But after a little pressure from Moscow on Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen, Helsinki's Olympic Stadium suddenly became available for the opening session. City officials offered 36 schools; ample television coverage was promised. A Cabinet statement cautioned the heavily anti-Russian country−particularly its youth organizations...
Soliven traced the background of the communist movements in Laos and Vietnam and insisted, "We in South Asia can not be happy with a neutral solution even though the United States apparently...